After Hurricane Helene, adorable cat 'uses up all his nine lives' by finding his way back to family

A household successful North Carolina was reunited with their feline Blanco implicit a week aft they 'lost everything' to Hurricane Helene.

The Collins household were stunned to find their feline Blanco live aft helium floated distant connected their neighbor's rooftop successful Burnsville 8 days before.

Camille Collins said her beloved feline's travel location was a similar a 'Homeward Bound' movie portion speaking with Fox & Friends Tuesday. 

'This feline has had to person utilized each his 9 lives due to the fact that helium came to america arsenic a stray,' Camille said during her interview. 

'He's conscionable the full family's pet. He's the benignant of favored that goes connected hikes with you.' 

Blanco entered the family's lives earlier this twelvemonth aft Camille recovered him successful a compost bin past June, according to a Facebook post.

All the household members nursed him backmost to wellness and decided to follow him afterward.

Nan, Camille's mother-in-law, recalled the incidental erstwhile Blanco disappeared into the floodwaters.

'Blanco climbs up connected that organisation enactment that you see, and helium sees them effort to ascent the metallic roof,' Nan said connected Fox & Friends.

She added that Blanco ended up 'down successful the river,' which was really water and it was the past clip they saw Blanco until helium floated backmost to the family.

The owners person kept a adjacent oculus connected Blanco since their October 6 reunion, arsenic they judge helium has ingested h2o and has an oculus infection.

Blanco has since been placed connected antibiotics. 

Experts estimation the flooding from Helene has perchance caused much harm than Asheville's Flood of 1916.

'The floodwaters came up mode supra adjacent 500-year levels, astatine slightest 10 feet, and everything we ain is successful wreckage down us,' David Collins, Camille's husband, told Fox & Friends. 

'The neighbors' houses are gone that person been determination since the 1920s, and really, we mislaid conscionable astir everything we own.'

Prior to Helene, the household resided successful a converted bus, which, on with household members' RVs, 'washed distant down the river,' according to their GoFundMe page.

The Collins besides mislaid their garden, flowers, bees, and 'all labors of their love.'

Funds from the Collins' GoFundMe leafage volition beryllium utilized to rebuild and make a caller location for the family.

Camille and household person Sarah Min organized the leafage connected behalf of David, and the extremity is to rise astatine slightest $50,000.

Over 280 donors person fixed wealth to the Collins family, and they've raised much than $30,000.